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Rebel Nae attempted to be funny by writing:
This is the year of the monkey, and I am a monkey. Ook!I just saw the post with the elements link, it's neat, but how do you know which element you are? Do you just choose one that you think suits you?
Monkey
People born in the Year of the Monkey are the erratic geniuses of the cycle. Clever, skillful, and flexible, they are remarkably inventive and original and can solve the most difficult problems with ease. There are few fields in which Monkey people wouldn't be successful but they have a disconcerting habit of being too agreeable. They want to do things now, and if they cannot get started immediately, they become discouraged and sometimes leave their projects. Although good at making decisions, they tend to look down on others. Having common sense, Monkey people have a deep desire for knowledge and have excellent memories. Monkey people are strong willed but their anger cools quickly.
http://cat.nyu.edu/~liaos/noshock/zodiac/calendar.html
Here. A little down the page. It also tells when the year begins and ends acorrding to the Chinese New Year
My birthday is right on the cusp.
I am a Fire Goat. I am married to a Fire Snake.
The Fire Goat differs from the other members of the sign by his (or her) extraordinary temperamental vigor. All his actions and reactions in life ate motivated by intense emotions, with little room left for reflection and reasoning. He is passionate in whatever he does or believes in and can show exceptional courage in defending his stand.
But despite his tendency to let himself be carried away by emotion, the Fire Goat is nonetheless a most gentle and charming person. His affable comportment often induces people to be mistaken on his real intentions and earns him the reputation of being elusive and mysterious.
The Fire Goat is deeply interested in ecology, health, diet, and can make a fortune in activities related to the improvement of the quality of life.
This Rabbit is an avid reader served by an amazingly faithful memory. But the frequent quotations with which he sprinkles all his conversations can only enhance his reputation as a pedant.
Blessed with splendid administrative qualities, the Fire Rabbit often makes his name as a ranking government official or business executive. His efficiency is unparalleled. But whatever his earning ability, his fear of want never lets up. Prospects of possible financial difficulties worry him a lot, and he is keen on planning the future down to the minutest detail it is probably because he abhors the idea of being dependent upon others for material reasons.
Love is to him a nice thing, but not at all a necessity of life. There is always more friendship than passion in all his relationships with members of the opposite sex.
Psha. 
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Abbikat's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
Thanks for the reminder... it was only 15 days before Neil Armstrong made his "one small step"...Geesh, anyone would think I was married to Methusela or sumthin...
Oh please. No one wants to trot out their "I'm so old" creds while I'm around.
And for the record, I'm a Rat. A Steel Rat, which leads to all sorts of hilarious Harry Harrison jokes.
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Callalron's account was hax0red to write:
And for the record, I'm a Rat. A Steel Rat, which leads to all sorts of hilarious Harry Harrison jokes.
*Jumps up and down excitedly*
Whatever his age, this Goat always gives the impression that he is incapable of striking on his own. Lacking objectivity, he easily becomes entangled in the problems at hand and habitually has to count on others to solve them. When confronted with difficulties of any kind he chooses the line of least resistance, convinced that most things will resolve themselves without his intervention or effort.
Conscious that his own survival depends largely on other people, the Earth Goat does his best to secure their sympathy and cooperation. His instinct for self-preservation prompts him to agree to all sorts of concessions and even compromises.
and I'm dating...
The Earth Horse is vulnerable to excessive idealism. While afraid to fall victim to duplicity, he cannot help trusting others much more than he should. He loves to give counsel and be of service but does not resist his urge to meddle in other people's affairs.
Although not overly attached to worldly riches, material possessions are a decisive factor of his feeling of security. On the other hand, marriage, which he delights in scoffing at, can ironically have a great stabilizing and stimulating effect on his comportment and often proves indispensable to his success in life.
His lack of self-confidence is most apparent in the realm of love. The Horse of this combination suffers greatly through his compulsive inner fear of being hurt or deceived. It is always hard for him to recover from disappointments in love. In addition, he is often haunted by the prospect of death, and the idea of having to leap into the beyond may sometimes take on a psychotic dimension in him.
Why the hell are they all he, anyway?
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me
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Lyinar Ka`Bael had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Why the hell are they all he, anyway?
My DnD 3e Players Hand Book says she over and over. IT MUST BE SEXIST
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael spewed forth this undeniable truth:
*is Psychotic Deth! And...uh...starts harassing Lyinar for her hand in marriage IRL! Yes!*
LIKE OMG!!!!!!!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Wood Snake has an exaggerated love of luxury, beautiful things, and life's pleasures of every description. During all his existence he will have to think of ways and means to satisfy his penchant; frustration in this direction would mean death to him.Among the pleasures he pursues the most assiduously are those of the flesh. This is a specialist in promiscuity and he can boast of his unequalled knowledge in aphrodisiacs. Love, which is practically at the core of all his preoccupations, has a more erotic than sentimental meaning to him.
An inveterate dreamer, this type is always at a loss to tell where his fantasies end and reality begins. Yet he is not totally devoid of practical sense and even shows some cleverness in carving out a good place under the sun for himself. A certain amount of wisdom is not alien to him either. He is more anxious to oblige than most of his brothers and sisters of the sign, but only without prejudice of any kind to his own interests.
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The Earth Goat exhibits a notoriously erratic behavior. He changes his mind ceaselessly without even knowing it. It is in his inveterate habit to act quite offhand and react in a hurricane fashion. Although capable of reasoning logically, he often bases his arguments on irrational premises. His entire existence is a constant flux between wishful thinking and upsurges of activity, between passivity and bounds of aggressiveness, between secrecy and transparency.Whatever his age, this Goat always gives the impression that he is incapable of striking on his own. Lacking objectivity, he easily becomes entangled in the problems at hand and habitually has to count on others to solve them. When confronted with difficulties of any kind he chooses the line of least resistance, convinced that most things will resolve themselves without his intervention or effort.
Conscious that his own survival depends largely on other people, the Earth Goat does his best to secure their sympathy and cooperation. His instinct for self-preservation prompts him to agree to all sorts of concessions and even compromises.
That doesn't sound like me at all, wtf.
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Of all Dragons, the Earth Dragon is perhaps the one who most needs encouragements and compliments. These are the fuel without which his motor simply could not turn.The Dragon of this combination is unmistakably graced with much magnetism and charm. His ability to make and keep friends in astonishing. In the realm of love, he arouses numerous passions without knowing or wanting it.
Although gentle and pacific by nature, he may at times become quite aggressive when his honor or personal convictions are threatened.
Owing to his vivid intelligence and radiance, he can go very far in all fields of study. His intuition is such that he is always in advance of his time, which may prove a social liability under certain circumstances. His tremendous aesthetic sense allows him to succeed gloriously in all artistic careers, from the teaching of beauty to the creation of beauty itself.
Some of that is scarily accurate. o_O
Oh, and I think it uses "he" for everything because it's easier and less awkward than writing he/she, and saying "their" is technically not grammatically correct.
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Lyinar Ka`Bael is watching T.J. Hooker with a prostitute.
Why the hell are they all he, anyway?
Short answer; The singular non-gendered pronoun disappeared (turned into the word for man) between Middle English and Modern English. Writers like Shakespeare tried to fill this gap by using "they" to refer to the species - however this was not able to break into the mainstream, and further was later debunked by late grammarians who decided number agreement was more important than gender agreement.
Thus we now have many camps of thought; those that still use the antiquidated masculine pronouns to cover the entire species, those who replace the masculine pronouns with feminine ones, those who use "they" in hope that we'll develop a secondary meaning that solves this dilema, and those that use the hyper-PC correction of "he/she"
It's a major problem that Standard English faces, since we're hesitant to try and add a new word - and vehemently opposed on letting language change because it's "poor English" in the interim.
Fun tidbit - there are 220 words for sexually promiscuous women, and only 20 for sexually promiscuous males. Well, probably more on both sides by now.
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ACES! Another post by Moon Song:
Some of that is scarily accurate. o_OOh, and I think it uses "he" for everything because it's easier and less awkward than writing he/she, and saying "their" is technically not grammatically correct.
technically, neither is using "he"
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Vorbis had this to say about Knight Rider:
technically, neither is using "he"
Then my eighth grade grammar teacher was wrong! Oh well.
